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How do you spell the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Easy DUMB, DUMB, DUMB

It’s not the firestorm that the Susan G. foundation touched off by lopping off funding to Planned Parenthood last year and that it announced the other day. It’s not even the foundation’s right to lop off the funds. Though they could have done better than put out the weak, silly, half-baked line that it had nothing to do with abortion, or that it buckled to pressure from anti-abortion groups. It did, and everybody knows it. It’s not even about sullying Komen’s reputation. Since the foundation does good work in raising cancer awareness, and pours much money into women’s cancer prevention education programs.
No, Komen’s dumb move did exactly what anti-abortionists and presumably at least some of the shot callers at Komen didn’t want to happen. And that’s turn the funding hit against Planned Parenthood into a walking advertisement for PP. In the space of 24 hours, PP raised nearly a half million dollars in online donations from more than 6000 donors. And that’s just online, almost certainly the organization will raise tens of thousands more in the days to come as cash and checks continue to pour in.

Komen’s dumb move also gave PP something that spending thousands in ad dollars couldn’t do. And that’s promote PP’s organization and cause. PP has and will continue to do just fine without Komen’s cash. But there’s a cautionary tale that Komen and anti-abortionists again told the world. That’s be careful when you try to bully something into happening, the very opposite usually happens. PP is the latest proof of that.